Quotes About Focus

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

This means that days 1, 2 and 3 are the most important days in getting off to a good start in hitting the next milestones––days 5, 8, 13 and then day 21.

In the creative process you do not make choices about what you do not want. You make choices about what you do want.

Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. Often there is no reason to make such choices outside the context of the primary choice that calls for them. Athletes and musicians may not enjoy practicing long hours, but they do so just the same; not out of duty, obligation, or any other form of self-manipulation, but because they are making secondary choices consistent with their primary choice to be able to perform music or excel at sports.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody's undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.

I said that the greatest female writers, with almost no exceptions, have been childless. A fact. And I have said that women generally, by virtue of their desire to mother, are incapable of the necessarily single-minded focus anyone must bring to the creation of literature, true literature. I don't retract a word. That is a fact.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

He drank as though his beer was medicine, without pleasure, intent on the result.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice. Sure

She now understood the potencial for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion

she now understood the potential for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion.

She remembers how she 'wanted only to see the good' and the rest she 'simply shoved aside'.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together of attention and release of energy.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Problems are never real problems unless they cause you to take your eye off your goals. When a negative reaction threatens you, look over and beyond the problem.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.